PHLA10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Foundationalism
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Exercise 6: outline the three conditions that make up the jtb theory of knowledge. Know-how knowledge: try to think up your own counterexample to the jtb theory (an example that is of the same kind as sober produces). Susan believes it is going to rain today. Skepticism is the thesis that knowledge is unobtainable. Descartes tried to refute skepticism about knowledge; hume was a skeptic about the rational justifiability of induction: outline the core idea of the foundationalist theory of knowledge. Foundationalism is the view that all the propositions we know to be true can be divided into two categories. First, there are the foundational propositions, which have some special property that explains why we know them to be true. Second, there are the super-structural propositions, which we know because they bear some special relationship to the foundational propositions. Descartes"s test; it cannot be put into doubt: define indubitability and incorrigibility. Indubitable means too evident to be doubted; unquestionable.
